If you follow technology news you should have got surprised reading the article title because there is no official DirectX 11 for Windows XP or Vista as of now, Microsoft DirectX 11 (6.01.7000.0000) will be made available on Windows 7 and Windows Vista when officially released in coming months, but virus creators have hoped onto the opportunity and started taking advantage of gamers curiosity to install the latest version of DirectX by posting fake trojan infected DirectX 11 links on blogs and forums, these so called DirectX 11 For Windows XP and Vista installer contained Trojans created in perl scripts which got detected by only three lesser known anti-virus scanners on VirusTotal out of total 39.

As soon as you launch the installer the Trojan gets extracted and executes trying connecting to internet.

If you have already fell for this trap then your computer might be infected with "W32.Gaobot" Trojan and you should immediately run this removal tool from Symantec to get rid of.

While on my quest to get information on DirectX 11, I found another installer package claiming to be DirectX 11 for Windows XP and Vista, this one looked pretty genuine and I installed in on a test machine setup.

Surprisingly, this setup did installed new DirectX dll files in c:\windows\system32\ directory but DirectX Diagnostic Tool (DxDiag.exe) did not detected anything new as shown below.

These new files could be Direct3D 11 Technical Preview DLL's from the SDK unveiled at the Gamefest 2008 event in Seattle, but until this is further confirmed I suggest everybody stays away from these so called fake DirectX 11 installers, If you are on Windows XP you can install tried and tested unofficial DirectX 10 for Windows XP shared earlier.

you idiot, go back to school and learn how to read! HE IS WARNING YOU THAT THE ONLY VERSIONS AVAILABLE ARE TROJANS. Angry little dipsh*@s like you DESERVE to get a trojan or six! Good on the author for saving alot od people alot of hassles :)

Never saw a mor ridiculous comment.
Yes antivirus companies make the viruses, so they can sell their programs AHAHAHAHA.
You're not very bright aren't you?
That explains also your "bless america", or do you like the country bringing war all over the world?

hey man, i bet u have seen more rediculous comment before (and if not please correct me), but thats beside the point. he was happy in the end... if u dont believe that he's right, then at least give some proof that he was wrong, other wise ur comment is just as rediculous as his was. it holds no weight at all, to be honest.

I, for one, dont take sides right away... i LISTEN to the other side first and ask them there reason before i make my statement of opinion. u shouldnt ridicule people just becuase your view was thought right. its beneath you and/or anyone. you could have at least said what you meant in plain words too, instead of being so vague and questionable.

You people come on wake up, how would AntiVirus and Spyware removers stay in business? LOL!!

I am serious, I don't make these, and I don't work for any company like this. But majority are done for business, and the few are idiots who get a laugh from it. I would rather it come from the laughing side to be honest. But either way the businesses stay needed. They become a yearly subscription, why? The prices are expensive.

For help get Avira or Kaspersky. Get Avira free if you have no money (ony chose one of them)Also get spyware terminator, superantispyware and spyware blaster (get all of these) and get them from the legit web site.

You are looking at it all too logically. Criminal minds are infected with delusions of grandeur. Productivity has no root in them. They live in darkness. Stop trying to understand and just protect your equipment. Look at what is spent for police protection. It ain't free either, but that money is taken from you before you get paid. And in many places they protect their jobs by forbidding you to protect yourself. Hope that kind of thinking never happens in cyber homes.

A: "English", even when referring to the language and not the inhabitants of England, is a proper noun and is therefore capitalized.
B: Topic/Subject headings contain capitalization on every major word.
C: Ellipses consist of three consecutive "dots" (periods), not two.
D: The beginning letter of any sentence is always capitalized.
E: A quotation within a sentence should be preceded by a comma.
F: The beginning letter of a quotation, unless preceded by an ellipses, should be capitalized.
G: The end of a sentence should contain some method of closing punctuation, be it a period, question mark, or exclamation point.
H: When a quotation is used within a sentence that ends said sentence, the closing punctuation is within the quotation marks.

Lastly, English is not the only language that is spoken or written upon our planet and access to the World-Wide Web is...worldwide.

Man, or woman, the internet needs more people like you. Yeah, sure, people with intelligence are often ridiculed, like in the movie Idiocracy, but I think it would help people like me who are getting older and haven't been in school for a while to keep good grammar practice. Anywho, cheers to those of you who appreciate when people take their time out to test software for vulnerabilities and make the results available in a public forum so that people who don't have the capacity to do so themselves can keep their information safe. And to those of you who are raging on here, well, I guess being stupid has its perks; you don't have to worry about problems like these, because technicians do it for you.

The Second Installer Package Of Directx 11 is 100% clean from virus and are original DX11 Dll files Build For Windows7 But They are Fully Functional In Windows Xp,It Made The Video Image More Clear ,Like When You Wash Your Car's Wind Screen.

Linux could be an option if they would add a .exe handler natively. WiNE does not function that well as of last time I tested it unless someone has made a better working copy wsince i last downloaded it.

The biggest problem I could see if they did make Linux handle .exe natively is that linux would fall prey to all the viruses windows currently suffers from.

"Surprisingly, this setup did installed new DirectX dll files in c:\windows\system32\ directory but DirectX Diagnostic Tool (DxDiag.exe) did not detected anything new as shown below."
You want it to change in dxdiag I can do that just open regedit and change {HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectX\Version} to what ever you want to be in dxdiag.

We see this now, not just in viruses, but in the ways that business handle situations between the poor & the rich.

The rich care only about getting richer, while the poor struggle to survive. Microsoft, the RIAA, Sony, Metallica, & several other greedy companies routinely sue their own customers who use Napster, or other file sharing services in order that they may make $$$ off each song you use, each time you play it.

It is not based on morality or what is right & wrong, but rather on whether they are sitting in their armchair making $$$ off you. Many times, you are working much harder than they, for lots less, but they still complain.

It is still possible to use Napster to share, if you know what you are doing. Sharing is not stealing, sharing is not a crime. Stealing is a crime, but sharing never has been stealing.

It is all a facade by Microsoft & the entertainment industries to try to pocket your $$$ whether they are in the right or in the wrong.

They do not care if you go to jail, they bankrupt you, or you roll over & die so long as they get your $$$.

You Tell em', as I agree, the Rich are the only real Crooks... They are all accumulating more wealth. So Sad Money and wealth is power... They say never Mind the poor for we have already robbed them blind so now lets go for the Middle Class. Look at Windows 7 buy the new Microscrap, it is a small fortune it has No Glamor but buy the companion package for it you need to sell a Kidney. it is fortune $ 259 Windows 7 + Update $168 + patches in 2012, $199 USD. Hello Linux....

Thanks for the info, friend. I just don`t begin to install this so called "directx 11 for XP". Everyone wants better preformence in games, and have hope that some "realy cool programmers" can adopt new DX to good old XP. Unfortunatelly, some bad a**es use that situation to send viruses and other sh*t.
(sorry for bad English)

I had 6GB Ram put in my i7 computer thus upgrading it to a 64-bit Windows 7 Pro. Went into Performance Information and Tools then clicked on the link next to the printer "View and print detailed performance and system information." - It tells me I am using DirectX 10.

I downloaded the "DirectX SDK - (August 2009)" from the Microsoft website. It gave me a bunch of things in something called "DirectX Sample Browser" which gives me options of things to install. This is where I get lost. I'm not sure if I've taken a step in the right direction or more confused than I was before.

I was going to download it but since you cleverly named the subject as if you could download it here I read it and it also helped that this got priority over the Trojans... why doesn't Google do anything about it?!

Thank you very much for giving this worthy information. It is a good effort. This will help the novice person like me, who always tries to obtain the latest version and immediately download it without any noticing the underlying dangerous viruses. So I advice all of you who read it, download the latest version only from trusted site, or from the site where you get the earlier version.
Again thanks to you!

It was notified that this site is providing the direct x version 11 for downloading. But there was not even a ling related to it, which means to waste the time of users. There was no procedure mentioned here about the downloading of the concerned file. Better ti ignore these kind of shit..! All the reports presented above are not human sent, Ofcourse thise are computer generated which was being intended to raise the visitors, ratings and some to make fun out of us(irritate others). These will be consisting of some dangerous threats or virus which leads to complete damage of our systems by damaging the internal hardwares like firewalls, locking data etc..,

Thanks for the info, I was about to download the new DirectX 11 from some blog site and then it occured to me that this is an update that usually happens with windows update. Looked all over the microsoft site and could not find any real conclusive evidence of a "finished" new version. After that, it only made sense to find some informative blogs about the new directx and found your site. Thanks bro! You really helped alot of people on this page.

You can not run Direct x 10 or 11 on Windows xp or vista ONLY WIONDOWS 7,Atleast i think thats what the microsoft web site said.Very helpfull ther are so many tojans out there its hard to tell if im writing on a trusted web site.

I m facing some kind of problem while installing directx 11, as soon i start the intalation it says.............. [b]"microsoft.directx.audiovideoplayback.dll is currently in use by another application.. you must close any application using the component before setup can continue..." [/b]

so please help me how should i install the directx 11.... i have already uninstall the directx10...

Currently looking for the best DirectX for Windows XP (32Bit),I am playing Eve-Online and have currently Dx9.0c and like this artical suggested was looking for a much better Dx for my PC. Have been going crasy cause im not a PC-geek (sorry to you PC-Geeks out their) but looking for a link that takes me right to a download for a Dx thats better than Dx9.0c ! So is their a better Dx for Windows XP(32Bit) ??

hehe, many people see trojan but my computer doesn't get anything like that althought i use Kis 2011,you need do google search more for real program of dx11 for xp. But still i don't see so much diffrerence with dx 10 or 11 until you have dx11 graphic card support.

Great work mate! Thank GOD I read this before getting DX11. But, that other installer you said you found, once you get it all sorted, are you going to post it up? I ask only because I want to play Sniper Elite V2, and I have never upgraded from XP in all the time I've had it.

Great work mate! Thank GOD I read this before getting DX11. But, that other installer you said you found, once you get it all sorted, are you going to post it up? I ask only because I want to play Sniper Elite V2, and I have never upgraded from XP in all the time I've had it.

MS DirectX 12 is necessary technology for correct and high speed interaction in the computer multimedia system. This set of runtime libraries provides the high end software solution to be a part of PCs video/audio-drivers.

MS DirectX 12 is necessary technology for correct and high speed interaction in the computer multimedia system. This set of runtime libraries provides the high end software solution to be a part of PCs video/audio drivers.

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